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Smoking Cessation in Adolescent Smokers
Much has been studied to further understand smoking initiation in adolescents and smoking cessation in adults, including the social cognitive theory of self-efficacy and outcome expectations. Nevertheless, their role as predictors of quitting smoking requires further study. It is important to develop measures of self efficacy to resist smoking in various situations identified by adolescents as high risk for initiating smoking and outcome expectations across psychosocial, emotional and physical aspects for quitting smoking for good.Read more…Alcoholism and Marijuana Smoking
Given the high prevalence of alcohol consumption and marijuana smoking, it may be conceived of normative developmental experience. Although light substance use may be a normative and adaptive behavior, a significant minority experience substance use-related problems. Assessing substance use behavior in association with other normative behaviors may enhance the understanding of this complex behavior.Read more…America's Breadbasket: Crystal Meth
Methamphetamine is an addictive drug made in home labs. When taken by mouth, snorted, injected or smoked, it produces intense pleasure by releasing excessive amounts of the brain’s reward chemical – dopamine. The euphoria that it produces is longer lasting than even cocaine, and meth users are reluctant to give up this highly addictive central-nervous-system stimulant.Read more…Why is Alcohol a Drug?
In Narcotics Anonymous and other 12 step programs recovery is usually defined as complete abstinence from all mood and mind altering drugs. This includes the legal drug, alcohol. I have heard this questioned and debated many times and want to suggest some good reasons why Alcohol is a drug.Read more…Morphine: A Pain Medicine and Addiction
Morphine is an opioid analgesic and is used to treat moderate to severe pain. Morphine pain medicine works by affecting how the body senses pain. While effective in treating pain, morphine can be quite addictive and can be potentially abused should a dependency develop.Read more…Prescription Drug Abuse and Pill Withdrawal
Prescription Drug Abuse, or pill addiction as it is commonly called, and, ultimately, 'pill withdrawal' have been with us since doctors began prescribing drugs, but has become more widespread since the advent of the ‘repeat prescription’ or ‘refill’, whereby patients can have a prescription renewed without having to visit their doctor. This can be as simple for many people as visiting a pharmacy and filling out a form giving their name, address and the drug they want. This is then returned to the surgery for the doctor to countersign.Read more…Alcoholism and Adultery Go Together Like Bread and Butter
Has your spouse cheated on you? Is your spouse a heavy drinker or alcoholic? I firmly believe that in most cases of a cheating spouse, adultery would not have happened were alcohol not involved.Read more…Important Things to Know about Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Testing
While alcohol consumption is considered to be a recreational activity for adults, it can carry with it potential health hazards including dependence, addiction, liver damage and all kinds of different accidents. Alcohol test kits can help put a stop to irresponsible drinking, and reduces the amount of workplace accidents, drunk driving arrests and accidents and binge drinking-related deaths.Signs of Alcohol AbuseSomeone under the influence of alcohol typically exhibits very characteristic signs including glassy eyes, irritability, memory loss, decreased hygiene, job performance and school performance, argumentative behavior and decline in relationships.Read more…Alcoholic - The Word
Any language evolves like Topsy, it just grows and nobody controls it. Even in countries where there are academies whose task it is to keep the language pristine, the language does what the people who use it choose for it to do. This results in words and phrases called idioms.Read more…PCP: Effects of Deadly Angel Dust Addiction
What is PCP, exactly? While developed during the 50’s to be used as anesthesia, phencyclidine, or PCP, has never made it to the market for human use. Due to the erratic side effects, it was deemed illegal.Read more…All You Need to Know about Marijuana Drug Screening & THC Drug Testing
Marijuana is an illicit substance taken most often by means of smoking. A cigarette rolled with marijuana is called a joint. A cigar rolled with marijuana is called a blunt.Read more…Fighting Withdrawal: Methadone Abuse & Addiction & Testing
Methadone is a prescription medication that is used to treat severe pain. It also helps those addicted to heroin to cease their use of the drug without experiencing horrendous withdrawal symptoms. Since heroin causes an excess of dopamine to be released into the brain, addicts feel a constant need for the drug to maintain this high.Read more…Advice From A Heroin Addict
What would you think if a heroin addict gave you some really sound advice on life? Would you take it? (The advice that is - not the heroin.Read more…When Someone You Love Is Into Pornography
Often times when you are in the middle of a crisis you can’t see clearly enough to know what your next step needs to be. The following 10 steps will allow1. It’s not your fault! Your loved one’s porn addiction has nothing to do with you.Read more…To Join the Alcoholic Anonymous
There are many different reasons to why you would want to join the alcoholic anonymous. Some will join only to fulfill the court order that they were given. Yet there are a few people that join the alcoholic anonymous actually do this so that they are going to get better in the long run.Read more…Getting Help From the Alcoholic Anonymous Group
There are many reasons and many different kinds of people that join the alcoholic anonymous groups in their area. There are some that only go to meeting because they were told to and there are many that go to all the meeting because they want to. No matter what the reason on why you are going to the alcoholic anonymous meeting in your area, you are going to end up with something good out of it.Read more…Raised by a Drunk
When I was a child I remember promising myself that I would never drink when I grew up. I would never make another innocent being go through the distress that I went through with my own parents. I remember how ugly they seemed to me when they drank, how unreasonable, how heartbreakingly alien, how incompetent.Read more…Interview for "American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic" author Sterling R Braswell
Reader Views would like to welcome Sterling R. Braswell, author of “American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America.” Sterling is talking with Juanita Watson, the Assistant Editor of Reader Views.Read more…Married to an Alcoholic: 7 Steps to Helping Them Get Sober
Are you married to an alcoholic? Is your husband/wife a different person when they drink? Are you tired of the Dr.Read more…Alcohol Abuse: Destroyer of Happiness, Demon of Tragedies
It’s been almost thirty-one years, since my brother, Donald, put his revolver in his mouth and blew himself away. I remember August 3rd, 1975--like it was almost yesterday.I was on a first date with a very young woman, named Belinda.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Addictions category
- Using Drug Testing to Monitor and Control Drug Addiction - By: Peter Wood
The detection, monitoring and rehabilitation of drug abusers requires drug testing techniques which can accurately and reliably detect common drugs of abuse. Recent advances in toxicological analysis has both widened the range of drugs that can be detected and, with the introduction of hair analysis, enabled the long-term pattern of misuse to be established. - Drug Addiction or Eating Disorder: Which Came First? - By: Jonathan Huttner
When a person enters drug rehab or an addiction treatment facility and is diagnosed with a drug addiction and eating disorder, the question arises which addiction developed first and how do you treat two addictions?First, let us define an eating disorder as the quality of one’s thinking as it relates to food and weight and not how much someone weighs. Then, we may take a look at various behaviors and address other criteria. - Most Common Plastic Surgery Traps - By: Ted Douglas
Cosmetic plastic surgery has become a routine procedure over the past few years, but before you book an appointment, you should first make sure that you are aware of some of the common traps patients encounter.1. Poor recommendations. If you are planning to consult a past patient of a plastic surgeon to determine if you would also like to use them, be sure to consult those who have had good experiences. - Detox Programs - By: Jimmy Sturo
There are a number of detox programs designed to suit different lifestyles. A few of them are juice fasting, herbal detoxification, detox baths/ saunas and bowel cleansing. Some detox programs may target only the liver and the kidneys, while others are suited for bowel or skin cleansing. - Detox Centers - By: Jimmy Sturo
Detox centers are coming up in a big way with more and more individuals seeking to rejuvenate their health. There are detox centers that specialize in drug and alcohol abstinence. Some detox centers have a holistic approach towards health. - Computer Addiction Affects Young and Old - By: Jeanette Joy Fisher
Children are becoming especially vulnerable to becoming computer addicts, because there are an unlimited number of video games available, twenty-four hours a day. If you're a parent worried about your children, watch them for signs of withdrawals when they can't play on the computer for an extended period. They'll become irritable and studies have shown that children develop strong cravings for their games, not unlike a drug addict yearning for a fix. - Computer Addiction: Social and Multimedia Surfers - By: Jeanette Joy Fisher
More and more people find themselves facing a difficult situation with computer addiction. It's an addiction that's shared by young and old, and now strikes as many women as men, as many young people as retirees, and people from every education and intellectual level. Different groups are more likely to be struck by different types of addictions, but there's plenty of computer addiction to go around. - Life Threatening Illness: 5 Steps to Reignite the Burning Flame of Hope that Lies Within You - By: Larry Smith
Do you dread the thought of waking up to live another day in pain and misery?Do you feel thoroughly defeated, abandoned and without hope?Do you feel like no one, not your doctor, not your family, not your best friend, truly understands what you are going through? - Addiction Recovery: Five Ways You can Fight the Addiction Stigma and Regain Control of Your Life: - By: Larry Smith
Many people who suffer from addiction (chemical dependency) continue to believe it is dishonorable to be addicted. They attempt to conceal, minimize or deny it. It is quite apparent that people suffering from mental illness and addiction fight not only the disease but the stigma attached to the disease. - Addiction Treatment: Seven Steps to a Powerful Support Network - By: Larry Smith
If you are recovering from addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex it is imperative to develop a strong support network. A support network may consists of (but is not limited to) your health professionals, sponsor, family members, 12 step group and spiritual advisor. Here are 7 tips to get you started on your healing journey.